Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/grasą

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

A secondary zero-grade s-stem from the root of *grōaną and *grōniz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow, become green”). It cannot be directly from *gʰr̥h₁-s-, where the syllabic sonorant would result in *gurs-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣrɑ.sɑ̃/

Noun

*grasą n

1. grass

Inflection

neuter a-stemDeclension of *grasą (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*grasą	*grasō
vocative	*grasą	*grasō
accusative	*grasą	*grasō
genitive	*grasas, *grasis	*grasǫ̂
dative	*grasai	*grasamaz
instrumental	*grasō	*grasamiz

Derived terms

• *grasagrōniz
• *garsiją
• *grasugaz

Related terms

• *grōaną
• *grōniz
• *grōsō
  • Proto-West Germanic: *grōsu

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *gras
  • Old English: græs, gærs
    • Middle English: gras, grasse, gresse, gres, gers, grece, græs, grace, gars, grys, grisse, grese
      • English: grass
        • Tok Pisin: gras, garas
        • → Fiji Hindi: giraas
      • Scots: gress, gres, grais, graiss, grase, gers, girs
  • Old Frisian: gers, gres
    • North Frisian:

      Föhr-Amrum: gäärs

      Sylt: Gērs

    • Saterland Frisian: Gäärs
    • West Frisian: gers, gjers, jers
  • Old Saxon: gras
    • Middle Low German: gras
      • Dutch Low Saxon: gras
      • German Low German: Gras
        • Plautdietsch: Grauss
  • Old Dutch: *gras
    • Middle Dutch: gras, gars, gers
      • Dutch: gras
        • Afrikaans: gras
        • Berbice Creole Dutch: grasa
        • Jersey Dutch: x'rās, grās
        • Negerhollands: graas, gras
        • → Sranan Tongo: grasi
          • → Saramaccan: gaási
      • Limburgish: graas
      • West Flemish: ges, gas
      • Zealandic: gos
  • Old High German: gras
    • Middle High German: gras
      • Alemannic German: Gras

        Italian Walser: gras, gros

      • Bavarian:

        Cimbrian: gras, grass

        Mòcheno: gros

        Udinese: gròs, gros, groos

      • Central Franconian:

        Hunsrik: Graas

        Luxembourgish: Gras

      • East Central German:

        Vilamovian: gros

      • East Franconian:
      • German: Gras
      • Rhine Franconian: Gras

        Frankfurterisch: [kʀɑːs], (older) [kʀɔːs]

        Pennsylvania German: Graas

      • Yiddish: גראָז (groz)
• Old Norse: gras
  • Icelandic: gras
  • Faroese: gras
  • Norwegian:
    • Bokmål: gress, gras (< *grasja-)
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: gras
  • Old Swedish: græs, gras (hapax legomena)
    • Swedish: gräs (< *grasja-)
  • Danish: græs (< *grasja-)
  • Elfdalian: gras
  • Gutnish: gras
• Gothic: 𐌲𐍂𐌰𐍃 (gras)
• → Proto-Samic: *(k)rāsē (see there for further descendants)
• → Proto-Finnic: *rasi (see there for further descendants)